Quote from Letter 6,10 to Candidus, the priest going to the patrimony of Gaul. September 595
As you set out with the help of our Lord, Jesus Christ, for the patrimony which must be governed in Gaul, from the gold coins which you receive, we want your Beloved to purchase clothing for the poor, and to buy English boys who are about seventeen of eighteen years olf, so that they may profit by serving God in monasteries. Thus the gold coins from Gaul which cannot be spent in our own country, may be spent profitably in their own land. And if you can recoup some degree of return from the coins, the so-called 'interest', we want you to purchas for the poor from this also (..).
As you set out with the help of our Lord, Jesus Christ, for the patrimony which must be governed in Gaul, from the gold coins which you receive, we want your Beloved to purchase clothing for the poor, and to buy English boys who are about seventeen of eighteen years olf, so that they may profit by serving God in monasteries. Thus the gold coins from Gaul which cannot be spent in our own country, may be spent profitably in their own land. And if you can recoup some degree of return from the coins, the so-called 'interest', we want you to purchas for the poor from this also (..).
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 408
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